Italy’s Intramovies has acquired international rights outdoors of Israel and France on Israeli director Dani Rosenberg’s Gaza-Strip battle drama “The Vanishing Soldier.”
“Vanishing Soldier” is Rosenberg’s second function after “The Loss of life of Cinema and My Father Too,” which was within the official choice in Cannes 202O and gained the Jerusalem Movie Competition’s prime prize.
The movie is about an 18-year-old Israeli soldier who flees the Gaza battlefield and heads again to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv solely to find that the navy elite is satisfied he was kidnapped within the fog of battle. What ensues is a tragicomic journey and takes place over a interval of 24 hours on the streets of Tel Aviv.
“Vanishing Soldier,” which stars Ido Tako, Mika Reiss, and Israeli singer Efrat Ben Tzur, is produced by Chilik Micheali, Avraham Pirchi, Itamar Pirchi for United Channels Motion pictures (UCM). The movie has been financed by The Israel Movie Fund.
Beneath separate offers, Paris-based Dulac Distribution will launch the movie, that’s now in submit, in France whereas “Vanishing Soldier” will exit in Israel by way of United King Movies.
Intramovies’ head of acquisitions Marco Valerio Fusco in a press release praised “Vanishing Soldier” for taking “The spectator right into a kaleidoscope of contrasting feelings” and known as it “A panoramic, existential thriller set within the craziness of the state of battle.”
Michel Zana, head of distribution at Dulac, famous that the movie “Not solely casts a pointy and uncompromising have a look at what’s at present occurring in Israel, but additionally stands for younger folks all around the world who’re embroiled in wars, conflicts or beliefs that aren’t their very own, and that they reject.”
Intramovies is market premiering one other Israeli movie in Cannes, “The Future,” the second function by Noam Kaplan that can premiere within the worldwide competitors at Tribeca Movie Competition in July.